If you're truly men, you've got a couple. Just kidding, but I do think it's a very fun subject. Potential Spoilers will abound in this thread, but I'm not going to bother hiding all of them because you have to know what you're getting into if you start reading something like this.

Sean Pertwee is furious to hear there's a bomb on the ship that he just finished putting back together. He tears the ship apart trying to find it and finally locates it. "Gotcha!" he exclaims, but his triumph turns to agony as he opens it up to find a timer ticking down 4...3...2..1... He closes his eyes miserably and bows his head as it goes off.

Tough chick Vasquez (Jennette Goldstein) is covering the retreat of the remaining marines when she gets acid on her leg, rendering her immobile. Her lieutenant comes to rescue her but runs out of bullets and they get surrounded by Aliens. He pulls a grenade out and arms it, to which she says "You always were an asshole, Gorman" in a way that makes it clear she forgives him. Sublime.

I could go on and on but I suspect other people have their own suggestions to make.

Seagal kills the second Screwface by poking out his eyeballs with his thumbs, throwing him through a cement wall, breaking his spine and throwing him down an elavator shaft where he gets impaled on a metal rod! That's one death that truly defines the word overkill

Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:49 pm

calvero

Director

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Re: Great Movie Death Scenes

Quint in JawsSonny Corleone in The GodfatherJames Cagney in White HeatSam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea

Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:57 pm

JamesKunz

Critic

Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:35 amPosts: 6250Location: Easton, MD

Re: Great Movie Death Scenes

Calvero those are all excellent picks. So much so that I'm annoyed I didn't include Cagney's in mine

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Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:13 pm

ShrunkenHead

Re: Great Movie Death Scenes

Captain Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Even knowing that he returns by the end of the next film doesn't take away from it's impact (at least in my experience).

The death of Kirk's father on the U.S.S. Kelvin was a good example of a heroic self-sacrifice. I also thought it was a nice touch to have him discussing the name of his newborn son in the final seconds before the collision.

Everyone could see the death of Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson) coming once Chigurh found him, but it was a nice touch to have it come while he was listening to the phone ringing after Anton had told him what would happen.

Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:18 pm

JamesKunz

Critic

Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:35 amPosts: 6250Location: Easton, MD

Re: Great Movie Death Scenes

Ragnarok: I've always loved that little moment in Face/Off and I'm glad there's someone out there who agrees with me.

Vincent comes out of the shitter to find Butch, gun at the ready. Their eyes lock, neither of them moves. The tension is palpable, and you can tell that each man is waiting, just waiting, for the other to make a life or death move.

Then the pop tart pops, Butch reflexively squeezes the trigger, and Vincent spends the last few seconds of his life bleeding out, back on the toilet.

The scene that Eli Roth is shown with the bat. At first you just hear him tapping on the wall and then he comes out of the tunnel and beats the tar out of the Nazi officer. It has an incredible amount of tension and then is unrelentingly brutal.

Although absolutely scathed on this site, there were a great number of pieces of this film that I enjoyed. The scene that Otis has the police officer on his knees outside as he stands behind him with a pistol to his head really stands out to me. The camera pulls wider and wider and the shot that you thought was going to take less than a second has about 30 heart racing seconds to it. At the end of the wait, you're wanting the cop to die just so the tension in the scene can end.

He gets stabbed in the eye with a metal rod and falls down the side of a building, all the while banging his head against the walls, then he finally hits the ground and an x-ray image shows his entire spine shattering.

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